By the numbers
America's founders thought a decennial census was so important that they mandated it in the second section of the first article of the Constitution. Since 1790, the task of tabulating census returns has driven developments in data processing, including the introduction of Herman Hollerith's punch card in the 1890 census.
OMB-centric world
At the recent Interagency Resources Management Conference in Hershey, Pa., a reader said that GCN's coverage of the Office of Management and Budget had intensified noticeably in the past year.
Product reliability makes the IT choice easy
Here's why a network administrator at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida wants the IT products he buys to be reliable: 'It makes my job easier.'
Security, privacy a delicate mix
John Sabo, Computer Associates International Inc.'s business manager for security, privacy and trust initiatives, came to the private sector from the Social Security Administration, where he was director of the electronic services staff.
System helps FAA see skies more clearly
Federal Aviation Administration meteorologists and air traffic supervisors now have access to accurate weather data that helps them plan airline flight paths hours in advance.
Next year, tax forms will talk
In the next filing season, about 50 tax forms will talk to disabled users.
NIH is ready to build a clinical info system
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a six-year, $32 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. to develop the Clinical Research Information System.
NASA's $273 million launch system is grounded
NASA yesterday scuttled a new launch control system for the space shuttle because it had run over budget and fallen behind schedule.
Styles says A-76 best-value method could be tested on IT functions
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy likely will use IT functions to test a proposed integrated acquisition method for competing government jobs.
Justice, Treasury award $3 billion data-sharing contract
The Justice and Treasury departments have joined forces on an end-user communications procurement for their law enforcement agencies. Called Project 25, the procurement will include portable radios and portable repeaters and base stations.
DOD kicks off departmentwide personnel systems project
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has awarded five contracts to develop plans for a payroll and personnel system for the military's active and reserve units. It will replace roughly 88 personnel and pay systems and could cost up to $1 billion.
OMB looks to extend architecture to DOD, intelligence
The Office of Management and Budget is beginning to figure out how to integrate the federal enterprise architecture with the Defense Department and intelligence agencies systems.
IRMCO sweetens the mix with chocolate, real kisses
The 41st Annual Interagency Resources Management Conference earlier this month gave attendees a lot to chew on, with a smorgasbord of plenary sessions, two days of provocative dialogues on everything from CRM to XML, and a dangerous amount of available chocolate. Then, before it wrapped up, fitness guru and guest speaker Richard Simmons came in to try to get everyone back into preconference shape. Fat chance.
Government IT departments are spending on servers
A new report from Input, a technology research company in Chantilly, Va., says that a lot of the government's increased IT spending is on servers.
Study lists success factors for cross-jurisdictional e-gov projects
The Industry Advisory Council and the General Services Administration today released a report outlining the characteristics of successful federal, state and local e-government projects. The study researched 23 initiatives and found five successful projects that included a federal agency working with state and/or local agencies.
Justice backs South Dakota's fight against Internet child crimes
South Dakota's Internet Crimes Against Children unit has received a $1 million Justice Department grant to help support local authorities' investigations.
Packet Rat: Rat turns a blind eye on peer-to-peer vigilantes
The Rat has been keeping a close watch on the peer-to-peer file sharing debate and the political maneuverings of the Recording Industry Association of America.
People on the Move
A software tool developed by <b>Michael Aftomis</b> and <b>John Melton</b> of NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., and <b>Marsha Berger</b> of New York University's Courant Institute has won NASA's Software of the Year award.
Bandwidth booster cuts the repetition
The SR-50 and SR-55 Sequence Reducer appliances from Peribit Networks Inc. monitor wide-area traffic to encode repetitive sequences. They can cut the load by as much as 80 percent for some applications.
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